Hybrid/Remote TCP/IP Contract Job Trends

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring TCP/IP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 190 157 229
Rank change year-on-year -33 +72 +27
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 128 166 167
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.26% 1.37% 0.94%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.05% 12.90% 7.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 99 105
10th Percentile £219 £213 £272
25th Percentile £402 £382 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.20% - -7.41%
75th Percentile £588 £675 £613
90th Percentile £615 £750 £681
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% -12.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 6 11
10th Percentile £33.00 £24.88 £24.50
25th Percentile £52.75 £39.69 £25.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £33.44
Median % change year-on-year - +94.38% -48.55%
75th Percentile - - £54.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year - +30.00% -23.08%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

TCP/IP falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,062 1,287 2,314
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.43% 10.61% 13.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 681 774 1,501
10th Percentile £308 £313 £300
25th Percentile £400 £407 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £524 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.53% +4.75% -4.76%
75th Percentile £591 £625 £614
90th Percentile £680 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 30 85
10th Percentile £22.03 £18.11 £19.99
25th Percentile £36.06 £38.63 £21.98
Median hourly rate £64.25 £46.78 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.34% -2.54% -23.81%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.52 £70.00
90th Percentile £69.79 £75.00 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £33.39 £41.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -18.57% -25.45% +25.00%

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing TCP/IP and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

TCP/IP job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing TCP/IP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing TCP/IP

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing TCP/IP over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

TCP/IP daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

TCP/IP
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing TCP/IP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing TCP/IP

TCP/IP
Hourly Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing TCP/IP over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

TCP/IP hourly rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid working options

TCP/IP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (3.13%) OpenStack
2 3 (2.34%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.56%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.56%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.78%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (0.78%) Exchange Server 2013
4 1 (0.78%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (3.13%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 48 (37.50%) AWS
2 33 (25.78%) Azure
3 14 (10.94%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (9.38%) GCP
5 11 (8.59%) Amazon EC2
6 10 (7.81%) Amazon S3
7 9 (7.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 8 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 8 (6.25%) Amazon ELB
9 6 (4.69%) Cloud Computing
9 6 (4.69%) GitHub
10 4 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (3.13%) OneDrive
11 3 (2.34%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (2.34%) GitHub Actions
12 1 (0.78%) Apigee
12 1 (0.78%) AWS Direct Connect
12 1 (0.78%) Azure DevOps
12 1 (0.78%) Entra ID
12 1 (0.78%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 58 (45.31%) DNS
2 46 (35.94%) Firewall
3 30 (23.44%) DHCP
4 27 (21.09%) VPN
5 24 (18.75%) SSL
6 23 (17.97%) VLAN
7 21 (16.41%) HTTP
8 18 (14.06%) Ethernet
9 15 (11.72%) LAN
10 12 (9.38%) WAN
11 10 (7.81%) BGP
11 10 (7.81%) Network Security
11 10 (7.81%) Wi-Fi
12 8 (6.25%) OSPF
13 7 (5.47%) SAN
14 6 (4.69%) Multicast
14 6 (4.69%) Wireshark
15 5 (3.91%) Internet
15 5 (3.91%) MPLS
15 5 (3.91%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.69%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (4.69%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.34%) Amazon Aurora
2 3 (2.34%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (2.34%) Apache Cassandra
2 3 (2.34%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.56%) Big Data
3 2 (1.56%) Delta Lake
3 2 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (1.56%) Hadoop
3 2 (1.56%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 18 (14.06%) Eclipse
1 18 (14.06%) Visual Studio
2 15 (11.72%) Git
2 15 (11.72%) Jenkins
3 11 (8.59%) GitLab
4 2 (1.56%) JIRA
4 2 (1.56%) MLflow
4 2 (1.56%) Poetry
4 2 (1.56%) PyCharm
4 2 (1.56%) SonarQube
4 2 (1.56%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.78%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.78%) Subversion
General
1 41 (32.03%) Social Skills
2 27 (21.09%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (14.84%) Military
4 18 (14.06%) Presentation Skills
5 14 (10.94%) Finance
6 13 (10.16%) Public Sector
7 4 (3.13%) Local Government
7 4 (3.13%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.34%) Legal
9 2 (1.56%) Front Office
10 1 (0.78%) Banking
10 1 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.78%) Games
10 1 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.78%) Law
10 1 (0.78%) Retail
Job Titles
1 24 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 20 (15.63%) Network Engineer
3 19 (14.84%) Senior
4 18 (14.06%) Support Engineer
5 16 (12.50%) C# Software Engineer
5 16 (12.50%) Software Engineer
6 13 (10.16%) C++ Software Engineer
7 12 (9.38%) Developer
8 11 (8.59%) Infrastructure Support
8 11 (8.59%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 9 (7.03%) DevOps Engineer
10 8 (6.25%) Analyst
10 8 (6.25%) IT Engineer
10 8 (6.25%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (5.47%) Security Engineer
11 7 (5.47%) Senior DevOps
11 7 (5.47%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 6 (4.69%) Automation Engineer
12 6 (4.69%) IT Support
12 6 (4.69%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (14.06%) Node.js
1 18 (14.06%) Web Services
2 7 (5.47%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (5.47%) Middleware
3 4 (3.13%) REST
3 4 (3.13%) SOAP
4 2 (1.56%) Apache Avro
4 2 (1.56%) FIX Protocol
4 2 (1.56%) Flask
4 2 (1.56%) NumPy
4 2 (1.56%) Pandas
5 1 (0.78%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.78%) FpML
5 1 (0.78%) LDAP
5 1 (0.78%) SAML
5 1 (0.78%) Ultra Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 14 (10.94%) Analytical Mindset
2 9 (7.03%) Data Centre
3 7 (5.47%) Private Cloud
3 7 (5.47%) Public Cloud
4 5 (3.91%) Driving Licence
4 5 (3.91%) FPGA
4 5 (3.91%) Management Information System
4 5 (3.91%) Security Posture
5 4 (3.13%) Grid Computing
5 4 (3.13%) SCADA
6 3 (2.34%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (2.34%) Security Operations Centre
7 2 (1.56%) Blackberry
7 2 (1.56%) BYOD
7 2 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.56%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.56%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 62 (48.44%) Linux
2 56 (43.75%) Windows
3 8 (6.25%) Unix
3 8 (6.25%) Windows 10
4 5 (3.91%) Windows Server
5 4 (3.13%) Apple iOS
6 3 (2.34%) Ubuntu
7 2 (1.56%) Debian
7 2 (1.56%) VMS
7 2 (1.56%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (1.56%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.78%) CentOS
8 1 (0.78%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.78%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (26.56%) CI/CD
2 29 (22.66%) Agile
3 26 (20.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 24 (18.75%) Continuous Integration
4 24 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
5 21 (16.41%) DevOps
6 20 (15.63%) ITIL
6 20 (15.63%) Validation
7 19 (14.84%) Software Engineering
7 19 (14.84%) Visualisation
8 18 (14.06%) Continuous Delivery
8 18 (14.06%) Digital Twin
8 18 (14.06%) Synthetic Environment
8 18 (14.06%) TDD
8 18 (14.06%) Unit Testing
8 18 (14.06%) Verification and Validation
9 17 (13.28%) Infrastructure as Code
10 16 (12.50%) SIEM
11 15 (11.72%) Service Management
12 13 (10.16%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 45 (35.16%) Python
2 27 (21.09%) Bash
3 23 (17.97%) C++
4 19 (14.84%) JavaScript
5 18 (14.06%) C#
6 10 (7.81%) PowerShell
6 10 (7.81%) SQL
7 6 (4.69%) Java
8 5 (3.91%) Perl
8 5 (3.91%) Shell Script
9 4 (3.13%) C
10 3 (2.34%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (1.56%) Go
11 2 (1.56%) Groovy
11 2 (1.56%) Search Processing Language
12 1 (0.78%) PHP
12 1 (0.78%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 32 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 24 (18.75%) SC Cleared
3 13 (10.16%) Cisco Certification
3 13 (10.16%) Microsoft Certification
4 12 (9.38%) Azure Certification
4 12 (9.38%) Degree
5 11 (8.59%) Network+ Certification
6 10 (7.81%) CCNA
6 10 (7.81%) Server+ Certification
7 8 (6.25%) CCNP
8 5 (3.91%) CISSP
9 4 (3.13%) CompTIA Security+
10 3 (2.34%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (2.34%) CCSP
10 3 (2.34%) CEH
10 3 (2.34%) CompTIA CySA+
10 3 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (2.34%) GCIH
10 3 (2.34%) MCSE
10 3 (2.34%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.25%) GDPR
2 4 (3.13%) HIPAA
2 4 (3.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (1.56%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.56%) NIST
4 1 (0.78%) NCSC
4 1 (0.78%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 24 (18.75%) Docker
2 17 (13.28%) Hyper-V
2 17 (13.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (11.72%) Active Directory
4 6 (4.69%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (3.13%) GPFS
5 4 (3.13%) Lustre
5 4 (3.13%) NDS
5 4 (3.13%) NetIQ eDirectory
5 4 (3.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 2 (1.56%) vSphere
7 1 (0.78%) KVM
7 1 (0.78%) RACF
7 1 (0.78%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.78%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 24 (18.75%) Ansible
2 22 (17.19%) Terraform
3 16 (12.50%) Kubernetes
4 9 (7.03%) SCCM
5 8 (6.25%) Grafana
5 8 (6.25%) Prometheus
6 6 (4.69%) FortiGate
6 6 (4.69%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (3.91%) Puppet
7 5 (3.91%) WSUS
8 4 (3.13%) Progress Chef
9 3 (2.34%) CSIRT
9 3 (2.34%) Iperf
9 3 (2.34%) Nmap
10 2 (1.56%) Argo
10 2 (1.56%) Consul
10 2 (1.56%) Istio
11 1 (0.78%) CASB
11 1 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.78%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 46 (35.94%) Microsoft
2 23 (17.97%) VMware
3 18 (14.06%) Palo Alto
4 16 (12.50%) CheckPoint
5 15 (11.72%) Cisco
6 13 (10.16%) F5
7 10 (7.81%) Fortinet
8 8 (6.25%) Oracle
8 8 (6.25%) Red Hat
9 5 (3.91%) Blue Coat
9 5 (3.91%) SolarWinds
9 5 (3.91%) Sophos
9 5 (3.91%) Zscaler
10 4 (3.13%) Google
10 4 (3.13%) HP
10 4 (3.13%) NetIQ
10 4 (3.13%) Splunk
10 4 (3.13%) Symantec
11 3 (2.34%) Infoblox
11 3 (2.34%) OpenText